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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
QUEEN VICTORIA.

1t was at the Princess of Wales first
drawing room after her marriage that I
was presented, and the Queen did not re-
ceive; but afterward had capital op-
portunity to see her. It was at the
launching Of the Victoria" at which 1
was invited to be present by the Duke of
Somerset. A brilliant company was as
sembled, awaiting her Majesty. At last
there was commotion, and 1 supposed
the Queen was coming. looked earnest
ly for some appearance of royalty, but
saw only stout, elderly lady, whose self
and toilet thought would have made a
good caricature for Punch as "The
British Matron Abroad" She was very
short, both Of stature and of breath; and
her face was red and cross. Her toilet
consisted of large, gaiiy- plaided poplin,
so short in the skirt as to expose the tops
of pair of heavy walking shoes. A
long, loose velvet sack fitted so tightly
over the full dress that it gave the wear
er's figure barrel-ike appearance; and
a dark green hat of uncut velvet, its
plumage draggled by rain and blown by
the wind, was worn on a head that did
not suggest familiarity with crown; but
the finishing blemish was huge muff of
royal ermine suspended round the lady's
fat neck by a cord, which, not being in
use, wabbled helplessly back and forth
over her weli-rounded body.
Who is that funny, fussy woman?" I
asked laughingly of my naval escort, a
British officer.
GOOD heavens, madam" said he, in a
low voice, that is our Gracious Sever
eign!"
For moment was speechless, but
not half convinced, until 1 noticed that
all the gentlemen were standing, hats off,
and fine looking man, whom I recog-
nized as Prince Albert, joined the lady in
plaid, also standing uncovered. The day
was cold, bleak, and cheerless; the wind
whistled around us and great rain drops
fell. I really felt my first CLEAN of adj
miration for her Britannia Majesty when
she ordered the gentlemen present, in
GLIDING her husband, to put on their
hats.-MartbG j. Coston.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
REFINED TABLE MANNERS

Some people eat their meals so hurri
eddy that one would suppose they had
not moment to lose, while others eat in
a manner that is absolutely hoggisb. No
wonder America is the great nation of
dyspeptice. To eat greedily or behave
improperly at the table is very disgust.
ing to cultured people.
Refined table manners mark not oulv
good breeding but good feeling; and
whatever else in the day is to be hurried,
the dinner is not. 1t takes time to enjoy
delicate favors, and to appreciate those
dishes which ought to be real works of
art, not only in order that the gastric
juice may have time to thoroughly min
gle with the food, but that we may rise
from the level of the animal to that of a
higher order of being.
Health, happiness, harmony, wait ON
our habits, which affect our mental con-
dition more than we can realize. Bad
temper is frequently nothing but another
name for Indigestion. Irritability, peev-
-ANASSS HhN uyoPOpSld are Uu6 certain
results OF boiling food when the body is
weary and the mind pre- occupied.
No part OF the furnishing of our houses
is SO generally satisfactory to ourselves
as the furniture of the dinner table. We
do not take much interest in the form Of
tables and chairs, or in the patterns and
colors OF carpets and curtains; and if we
are ever induced to observe little more
carefully than we have done, we find
them incapable Of exciting interest, and
often very ugly. But a well-furnished
and elegant" dining table pleases every
body. The lady who sits at it's head looks
upon it with much satisfaction; and this
Is not only because it gratiies her pride
OF possession, or her desire TO excel in
splendor of display, but also because it
is really pleasant to her sight. The visi-
tor has probably seen during the day no
lnanlmate thing which seemed SO fair:
and this not only because he loves e good
dinner, and sees in this the promise of it,
but also because it is more nearly beau
tlful than his Office, his friends parlor
and household furniture he knows, or
anything he sees in the streets.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
WHY?
I would like to have few quiet words

would like to have few quiet words
with you.
Do you not see that you are cultivat-
ing habit of fretfulness? How easily
angry words spring to your lips. How
often you say things you would gladly
unsay, but you cannot change the direc-
ton of the arrow after it has left the bow.
How often do you throw dark shadow
on hearts on which should fall only the
tranquil light of peace. Have you not
noticed when III the woods the birds cease
their singing at the loud tones of the
passer by? No wood bird is SO shy as the
joy-birds of the heart. When they hear
the angry tone or Gliding word, they are
silent And how many joy birds you
have silenced in the nest of the hearth
"But I didn't mean it. I didn't say
anything"
Aye, but you did mean it. You have
learned (oh, sad knowledge how to cut
deeply with a sentence that seems to
have no edge, except for the ear for whom
you intend the wound. And you need
not deny it, for you deliberately made
that cash in the happy heart of one who
ought to be dearer to you than life.
And do you not see that these words
are streams that channel deeper the gulf
of alienation between you and your loved
ones? This gulf once made is not easily
filled.
And yet how one sympathizing, affec-
tionate word from you would change
tears to smilesl
Why do you cultivate this cruel tenden
cy? Does it make you better OF stronger?
Do you go to your task with quicker step
because you have assassinated happiness
in human heart?
"But do you think can overcome this
tendency to angry and cruel speech"
Yes, 1 do. One of the best friends 1
ever had was an old gentleman who died
at the ripe age of eighty years. He was
Christian, yet fond of the pagan Epic
tetus. He was genial, charming. I can
see now the merry twinkle in his eye.
Yet he told me that in a certain period of
his life, he found the tendency to peevish-
ness, fretfulness, growing upon him. He
had good sharp talk with himself, and
determined to cultivate another habit.
and he did it.
Why cannot you? -Neao Theology Her.
aid.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
BAD ENOUGH, BUT GROWING
BETTER,

DE- 1 r n.
The series of shocking revelations of
vice in high places which has made the
English courts and dailies of two con-
tinents noisome in the past two or three
years is scarcely sufficient to justify the
indictment of a people. If these pro-
ceedings passed on unnoticed, if no
crowds 1ocked to the court rooms to listen
to the confessions of women without
shame and men without honor, if the
papers passed them by, it would indicate
a moral callousness only more ominous
than the present popular interest. Only
among people so depraved that the dis
tinction between vice and virtue becomes
faint, does what is vile and wicked pass
unnoticed and unheeded. The novelty
of such spectacles among Englishmen
and Americans as have been presented in
the English divorce courts recently is
passed over by those who constitute
themselves censors of the English people,
and from the sickening stories of the
wickedness of half dozen individuals
they draw the unwarrantabls conclusion
that the domestic life of race is impure.
Nor are these same censors justified in
holding that the world is worse than it
was, because, thanks to the enterprise"
of the press, they are able to know with
greater particularly than would have
been possible fifty years ago the scandals
of a score of wealthy families. The
English, as rule, are better, more
temperate and upright people than their
ancestors of two centuries ago. The per-
centage of correctness of life to the total
of lives can never be known, but we have
no doubt that it is higher with the Ameri-
cans of 1885 than it was with the Ameri-
cans Of 1885.
However bad may be the lives of a few
English people of the highest rank, they
were exceptional. However wicked Eng
lish society of to-day may be it at least
pretends to outward conformity with the
rules of morality. Even the wicked
people whose vices are now exposed took
every means to counterfeit clearly living;
they endeavored to make the world be-
lieve they we're better than they were.
In the time of Charles III. they would
have been considered unnecessarily scru-
pulous for people of fashion. Whatever
may be the impurity of the bad men and
bad women of London society of to-day,
it is not stained with cruelty. No public
man could in the England of to-day hold
public Office after he had slain the hus-
band OF the woman he had led astray.
Imagine an English nobleman in the year
1886 coming into the House of Lords TO
take his seat, twenty four hours after he
ad slain one of the most illustrious
members of the bodyl Then if the i'm
agination is equal to that task, let it try
another. Let it consider what reception
London society would give to a countess
who accompanied her lover to the duel
ling ground disguised as page, witnessed
the death of her husband, and clasped
the victor to her bosom while he reeked
with the blood OF her wronRed and muir.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
HOW SHE SAVED THE MONEY.
A W0MAN'S STORY.

I've often read and heard about how
persons feel when death stares them in
the face" as they say in stories. 1 used
to wonder what kind of a sensation it
was. Now I know.
You see, John-John's my husband
was foreman of the night hands in the
factory for a long time. He went to his
work at six at night, and came home at
five o'clock in the morning. So 1 had to
stay alone all night, or the same as alone,
anyway, though the child there was COM
pany for me; but for all the help she'd be
in any trouble that might happen, /
might as well have been entirely alone,
you see.
never was afraid of burglars, because
we hadn't anything they'd think it worth
their while to come after. And then
we didn't hear much about them in those
days-though they've got to be plenty
enough since. If I'd heard as much
about them then as do now, 1 presume
I would have felt timid. But, as it was,
I felt as safe as you please, and when
John used to coax me to let him get a
boy or big dog to stay with me, I
always told him 1 didn't want to be
bothered with 'em.
One day a friend Of Johns, who had
been working in the factory long time,
and saved up quite little sum from his
wages, got tired of that kind OF life, and
said he was going to quit it, and find him
a little farm somewhere and settle down.
knew what that meant. He'd taken a
fancy to girl that worked in the factory,
and he wanted to make home some
where for himself and a wife.
He and John had always been the best
of friends, so it was quite natural he
should bring his money here and ask
John to keep it for him till he wanted to
use it. He didn't want to carry it with
him, he said; while he was looking up the
little farm he had set his mind on buying.
John told him he had better put it in the
bank, where it would be safer and grow
ing a little; but he said he'd feel just as
safe about it if he left it with us as he
would if he put it in the bank, and he
didn't think it would have a chance to
increase much before he got around to
use it, because he calculated to buy his
farm as soon as he found the one that
suited him.
So he left il. There was a trife over
a thousand dollars, he told John, and 1
thought by the way he looked at it when
he gave il to my husband that he felt all
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF 1885,

THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF 1887.
The year 1887 has in store for astrono-
mers total eclipse OF the sun, which can
be observed from convenient stations in
Europe. The eclipse occurs on the 10Th
of August and the line of totality passes
through Berlin and little to the north
OF Moscow. The account will give as
tronomers an excellent opportunity to
pursue their studies of the SUMS surround
ings. Our government ought to make
immediate preparations to send large
and we'll equipped party to observe the
eclipse. We believe excellent results
might be obtained in determining the
extent OF the suns surroundings by the
use OF rapid photograph lenses of wide
angle, in ordinary cameras. A lens of
six inches focus would produce a very
small image Of the sun, but would include
wide field Of the heavens and with very
rapid plates, the faint illumination about
the sun might be photographed. Obser-
walton of the total eclipse this year was
neglected by our astronomers. because a
committee of the National Academy of
Science reported to Congress that the
time was too short to prepare the neces-
sary instruments. The instruments de-
sired were not named. 1t is presumed
that they were elaborate instruments for
photography. Such instruments were
costly and largely experimental, and it
would therefore be we'll to try simpler
devices. Rapid lenses of short focus
covering wide field, are likely to prove
superior to large lenses of long focus in
which the field is greatly contracted.
Spherical and chromatic alteration can
not be overcome, and to make them as
effective as smaller lenses, the aperture
must be contracted, so there is little gain.
1t is to be hoped that the matter of the
eclipse in August will be laid before
Congress in time for suitable preparation.
Congress has always shown willingness
to provide ample means for observation
of total eclipses and other great astro-
nomical events. But Congress has often
been so tardy that lack of adequate prep
aration has greatly interfered with sue
cessful observation. American astrono-
mers may well devote their attention to
two subjects: the determination of the
character and extent of the suns vaporous
surroundings, and the search for intra,
Mercurial planets. The search should
not be given over, for the non-exiatence
of such planets has not been demonstrat.
ed, and there are excellent reasons fol-
believing that their existence may yet be
completely established. DEM
OcrQt.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
ANECDOTES OF SYDNEY SMITH

ANECDOTES OF SYDNEY SMITH.
Anecdotes of Sydney Smith are never
out of market. Mr.. Stuart J. Reid, in
his recent work, relates the following:
What could be more Economically grace
full than his courtesy to the young girl
who complained to him that she could
not bring sweet pea to perfection?
Taking her by the hand, he said: "Allow
me to bring perfection to the pea"
Or what was more delicious than his
description of the profusion of mirrors in
the houses of the French? 81 remem-
ber," he says, "entering room with
glass all around it, and saw myself re.
Elected on every side. 1 took it for a
meeting of the clergy and was delight
ed"
When he was told that the marriage OF
his daughter Saba to DR.. Henry Holland
was announced in the London papers
under the head of Fashionable Intelli-
gence," he exclaimed: "How absurd
why, we pay our bilIsl"
And there was real wit in his advice to
his friend, DIR. Blake, etaunch Unita-
rian and political Radical, who was SUI
fering from chills. I can cure you, doc
tor" said he; "cover yourself with the
Thirty nine Articles and you will soon
have delicious glow all over you"
He wrote to Mr.. Lopgman, the publish
er: :" 1 can not accept your invitation,
for my house is full of country cousins.
1 wish they were once removed"
AS a converser he was rival to Ma
caulay, that " book in breechee," whom he
used to chat. "Oh, yes" he said once
"we both talk good deal, but I don't
believe Macaulay ever did hear my
voice."
At the house OF Rogers he said to his
host: 81 wish could write poetry like
you, Rogers. Iwould write an Inferno,
and 1 would put Macaulay among mum.
Der Of disputauts and gag him." His
wit played like lambent flame till the
last.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
A POTATO PRECAUTIONARY

just three hundred years ago a great
blessing was conferred upon the Eastern
world by the introduction of the potato,
which Raleigh's ships took from Virginia
to Ireland in 1886. In the little town of
Youghal, the house which Raleigh occu-
pied is still standing; and three centuries
of potatoes have grown peaceably in the
plot of ground where he planted the first
tuber.
Sir Thomas Overbury said that the
man who has nothing to boast of except
illustrioas ancestors is like potato-the
only good belonging to him is under
ground. We don't know that the COM
parlson is very supplementary to this ex-
cellent vegetable. No article of human
food is 80 universally popular, and it is
perhaps the best of all the good things
which the world gained by discovering
America.
The three hundredth anniversary of
the introduction of the potato to the din
ner table ought, we think, to be honored
with a suitable celebration. It is an
event at least as worthy of remembrance
as the first sailing of behring's, or the first
ascent of Mont Blanc. These have had
their centenaries, and now it is the pota-
to's turn.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
THE UNIvERsALsT: SATURDAY, JANUARY 49, 1887

hear him. But l didn't stop to listen
long. I slipped on my dress, took the
baby and wrapped her up in shawl
and started for the nearest neigh
boris for help. I got boy to go to the
factory for John, and the neighbor and 1
went back to the house. The man was
trying to beat the door down with some
thing he had found in the cellar, when
we got there. The neighbor had pistol
and he was all ready to fire at the man
the minute he made a hole through the
door. But before he succeeded in doing
that, John came with two or three others
and they captured him without much
trouble, for they told him they'd shoot
him down like dog If he didn't give up
peaceably, and they would have done it
and he knew it.
SO, you see, saved Ben's money, after
all, and the first thing John did next
morning was to take it to the bank
wouldn't have kept it in the house an
other night for anything. And that very
day John gave up his night job, and 1
haven't been alone night SINCE
didn't know how frightened I really
was until it was all over. But after they
had the man, and knew the money was
safe, seemed to give out, some way, all
at once. and had to go to bed; and it
was two or three days before began to
feel like myself. tell you what it is,
don't want another such adventure.
Ones enough for me.-Eben e. ReGford
an Arthur's Home Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
MIGHT HAVE LOST HIS BOOTS

MIGHT HAVE LOST HIS BOOTS.
Mosby, late one of our consuls in
China, was famous leader of guerrilla
cavalry during the war. His audacity
was marvellous. With a dozen of his
men, disguised in blue overcoats, he
would ride into Union camp or picket,
fire yolley and gallop off.
One evening, when the army had halted
for the day, dozen of these reckless fell
lows rode at full gallop through the
space enclosed by the tents of General
Emory's headquarters, fred half dozen
shots. and were off before the astonished
captain Of the guard conld order his COM
pany to take arms. The General heard
the commotion and came out, and learn
ing how narrow had been his escape from
capture, he poured out the walls of his
wrath upon the head of the unlucky cap
tain. "Confound you, sir" he roared,
I" do you call this guarding my head
quarters? Those scoundrels might have
stolen my boots as easily as not"
General Emory's boots were often
referred to after that in connection with
the audacity of Mosby and his followers.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15

when she was only sixteen. He was
poor, but handsome; she was impression
able and bewitching, and mutual affec-
ton sprung up. Captain Hemsns was
obliged to join his regiment in Spain,
but, returning three years later, he re-
newed his suit, and they we're married in
1872 Six years afterward he went to
Italy, ostensibly for his health, and hus-
band and wife never saw each other again,
though they corresponded frequently.
Incompatibility of tastes between the
gay man of the world and the highly
strung poetess probably caused the sep
aration, though their first love was sincere
and warm.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-15
HE FOOLED THE CRITIC.

Those who know Charles Reade's writ
ings will remember that in one of his
stories an actress put her face in frame
and passed it off for a picture, which a
spectator criticised as not being life-like
A similar story is related by writer in
the New York Tribune, of the sculptor,
Hiram Powers. He was in Cincinnati,
working on wax bust of Thomas Jeffer-
son. There was critic in Cincinnati in
those days named Simms, who had in
Cured the displeasure of Powers and
others. He was told one evening that
thebust was completed, and was asked
to inspect it. 1t was in the days when
the only light was from tallow candles,
and as the room was dark, he was given
a candle with which to make a close in
spection of the bust. He began to COM
ment upon its unnatural appearance, de-
claring that the color OF the flesh was not
natural, and so on. As he leaned down
for closer inspection, the burning candle
was brought close to the figure, which
suddenly lodged back, winked its eye
and shouted: Don't burn me-" 1t was
Powers himself
Simms always denied this story, but
Powers told it with great gusto.
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dered lord. Yet Buckingham still kept
his position in the Government, and the
Countess of Shrewsbury kept her posi-
ton in society, after just such deeds, done
little more than two hundred years ago.
The popularity of the society OF the
Restoration was, as noted by Macaulay,
that it was at once hcentious and hard
hearted.
The world is not as good as it ought to
be. but it is better than it was-Boston
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